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ESL 5Advanced Composition and Reading
De Anza College, Winter 2002
ESL 5: Advanced Composition and Reading
Instructor: Dr. Clara Lam Section/time: 005-02, 12:30-2:40 a.m., MW
Office: F11-C, 864-8997 Classroom: MCC-13
Office Hours: 11:30-12:20 pm, M, W, Th;
before and after class & by appointments.
Prerequisites: completion of ESL 4 (Spring 2000 and prior) and ESL 126; ESL 24, ESL 72, and ESL 126 qualifying score on the ESL placement test; or eligibility for English Writing 1A.
Required Texts
1. Spack, Ruth. (1996). Guidelines: A cross-cultural reading/writing text. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
2. Lee, Harper. (1960). To Kill a Mockingbird. Warner Books.
3. A standard college dictionary, such as The Newbury House Dictionary of American English (1996, Monroe Allen Pub. Inc.) or the Webster’s New Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
Course Description
This course is designed to build a close connection between reading and writing, to promote critical thinking, and to create a community of readers and writers. Some major grammar errors found in your writing will be covered in class. However, good content, organization, and grammar are expected in revised drafts and in-class exams.
Course Requirements
1. Attendance: Prompt and regular attendance is required. If you are absent in the first week of class without prior notice, you may be dropped to allow another student on the wait list to be added. If you have more than three absences, you will be dropped. Arriving more than 10 minutes late is counted as an absence. If you miss a class, you need to find out what you have missed and make up for the work. Except in unusual circumstances, in-class quizzes and exams cannot be made up. Also, if you stop coming to the class, it is your responsibility to drop.
2. Writing Assignments: There will be a total of four assignments, including a project. All drafts (first and second) have to be submitted on time and typed. Late work (first or second draft) will result in the lowering of one grade per assignment. In general, you will receive feedback on the first draft of your writing from the class, and I will read and grade the second draft. When the second draft is returned, you must rewrite it as needed within the week it is returned. The rewrites will not be graded, but you must include them in a portfolio to receive the portfolio grade. Each paper should be between 500-750 words (2-3 pages, double spaced); the research paper will be slightly longer. All assignments should include your name, course title, the instructor’s name, date, and the assignment. Also include a brief title in the center of the page.
Example: Lanie Ceasarine
ESL 5-01C, Prof. Clara Lam
1-27-2002
Assign. #1, first draft
Title
The first (personal) and second (midterm) papers are each worth 10 points of the total grade while the research paper is worth 20. Each paper is evaluated with a numerical grade, and the number of total points earned will be calculated according to the weight of that assignment. For example, if you receive 80 for your first paper, you have earned 10 points x 0.8 = 8 points.
3. Portfolio: Use a folder with pockets. In one pocket, include all the drafts of the assignments, which must be dated, arranged in the order they were assigned, and attached with their grade sheets. Use paper clips to put the drafts of the same assignment together, with the final draft on top, followed by the graded (second) and first ones. The portfolios are due on 3/28, Thursday of week 12 during the final exam. Late portfolios will result in the loss of 4 points of the portfolio grade.
4. Warning: All writing assignments should reflect your own work. Although you may ask for feedback from a classmate, a friend, or a tutor, he/she should only make comments/suggestions on major problems in the paper or how to correct specific grammar errors. It is absolutely important that he/she does not rewrite the sentences or the paper for you. You use the comments to improve your writing, and it is you who make the corrections and revise the paper. A student who submits a paper found to be someone else’s work will receive 0 credit for the first time and be dropped from the class the second time.
Plagiarism: If you need to use ideas from a reading, mention the name of the author and title of the reading and then put the ideas in your own words. If you need to quote specific terms or a few lines (usually one or two) from the reading, put them in quotation marks. It is important that you do not take words and lines from the reading and treat them as your own writing. Any plagiarized paper will receive no credit.
5. Journal Writing: You will keep a journal in which you write at least two entries per week to develop your fluency in writing. Spend about 15 minutes for each entry. All entries have to be numbered, dated, categorized, and written in tidy, legible handwriting if they are not typed. Weekly entries should be categorized as follows.
Entry 1: Brief summary and response to a reading selection; on a free topic (such as a personal reflection or about an event), or a freewrite on a class assignment. Alternate the two kinds of entries, i.e., you will do a summary/response one week and write on a free topic the following week.
Entry 2: Summary and response to assigned chapters in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Vocabulary: Include in your journal five new words you learn each week. First explain the meaning of the word with the help of a dictionary; then, make a correct sentence with it. Use new words you have learned in your next entries and underline them afterwards. This is a great way to expand your vocabulary!
Each entry should be about 3/4 page (double-spaced); for private entries, fold them up and they will not be read. Starting the second week, I will set aside class time for you to read and respond to a classmate’s journal. Therefore, it is a good idea to bring your journal to class. The journal will be collected two times during the quarter—the first time on Thursday of week 6 (midterm) and the second time on Thursday, of week 10, 3/13, when all entries are due. The journal will be graded on its completeness, timeliness, and the amount of thoughts you put into the entries. Journal writing will begin next week and to be completed in week 9; therefore, there should be a total of at least 18 entries.
Grades
Writing Assignments 40 points
Portfolio 10
Journal 10
Project 15
Quizzes & participation 10
Final (Th, 3/28, 11:30-1:30 pm) 15
Grading Scale: 90-100 = A; 80-89 = B; 70-79 = C; 60-69 = D; 59 and below = F
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